Exact match VS Fuzzy search doesn't work in new simple site search

[MelwinQ]

Fuzzy search is great. However, if I correctly type "Montagu" and search for it, I'd like to see the three exact matches of this word appear on top of the result list; the Fuzzy matches can follow later.

[scd]

Yup the most recent change in format for the search results means this can happen. There are some other scenarios to consider:

• exact full match
• exact word match ( eg search for 'Kaiser' matches with 'Kaiser LHF')
• partial word match

[MelwinQ]

another unexpected thing:search for "ballikay" won't find anything; "ballikaya" yields two hits (one exact "ballikayalar", one fuzzy).Is that intended?

[scd]

Big topic, slowly working through these issues. Based on the algorithm 'ballikay' has too many different letters. Clearly for us humans our fuzzy search abilities see this as matching. I could tweak a parameter to make this match then we would get more false positives. Maybe the algorithm itself needs fixing.

The search is mostly passable at the moment so it is a lower priority for me as there are many aspects of the site which are not up to scratch.

When I do refactor the search I need to have a list of 20 - 50 use case examples to benchmark against. I'm not sure yet how to get this list.

[MelwinQ]

Not sure if this leads to the list you mentioned:

1849 lists a example.

search for "Olvena" first list numerous fuzzy matches; the exact match is hard to sport within the list (appears twice though in the "lowest hierarchy node" (?) - I don't see why this should be like this.)

[scd]

exact matches should be higher priority. Probably a bug

[brendanheywood]

We should also make a distinction in the results page to separate direct matches from the more fuzzy suggestions

[MelwinQ]

It would also be useful to have the results of the current node (and below) first, then the results of the global search.

[MelwinQ]

another benchmark example: search for "göschen" yields 50+ fuzzy results, but does not contain "Göscheneralp" (partial exact match). "göschener" works, though.

[brendanheywood]

I've going to repurpose this issue to document the list of 'fuzzy' searches which now no longer work in the new search but probably should.

1) https://www.thecrag.com/discussion/1934301270/release-62---simple-search-and-initial-redesign#m1945498926

In my example it was "Schläggen" and it didn't find "Schlänggen".

2) https://www.thecrag.com/discussion/1934301270/release-62---simple-search-and-initial-redesign#m1946868792

https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=Baume+les+Dames

doesn't find: 'Baume-les-Dames' (which I would expect it to if we split the names on punctuation, maybe - was missed?)

https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/france/franche-comte-jura/area/1394723259